Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula

[Principessa]

Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula

ATLANTA - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found.

The study by scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked for the chemical, perchlorate, in different brands of powdered baby formula. It was published last month, but the Environmental Working Group issued a press release Thursday drawing attention to it.The chemical has turned up in several cities' drinking water supplies. It can occur naturally, but most perchlorate contamination has been tied to defense and aerospace sites.

 

[MarkLondon]

Another reason to breast-feed.

 

[pym]

Link is dead. What is the origin and manufacturer of this Formula?

 

[dong20]

Link is dead. What is the origin and manufacturer of this Formula?

I think this is the link ... or close enough.

Miami News, Fort Lauderdale News, Florida News & Weather Channel 7 Fox Miami WSVN-TV - CDC: Rocket fuel chemical found in baby formula

Potentially affords an entirely new meaning to 'baby boomer' ...

 

[camper joe]

Does this account for why often baby's poo this colour?

 

[B_Hickboy]

The article is stupid, unscientific, dimwitted chicken little alarmism at is most odious. What kind of perchlorate? Ammonium? Potassium? It doesn't say. Does it say anywhere that perchlorates are also used in thyroid medications? No. They just found a class of chemical compounds that few people are familiar with and publish this packet of false drama to see how many people they could throw a scare into.

At 11: GREENHOUSE GASES FOUND IN TODDLER'S LUNGS!

Fuckwits. There are enough real threats in this life, not a lot of them, but enough that people don't need to go manufacturing more. The world is at once a safer and more dangerous place than most people have the guts to see it as. Open your eyes.

 

[Krusader]

Houston, we have lift-off

 

[Wish-4-8]

Another reason to breast-feed.

I also heard that there is rocket fuel in breast milk. The exhaust from all the jets flying above lands on us and somehow ends up in breast milk.

Maybe its just an urban myth.

 

[MASSIVEPKGO_CHUCK]

I guess when the advertisers said the formula was a blast, they weren't kidding, were they?